Category: java ee

The release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 (JBoss EAP), Red Hat’s flagship middleware offering for enterprise Java, is now available. Organizations around the globe trust and rely on JBoss EAP, a Java-EE compliant application server, to run their production workloads in on-premise, virtualized, containerized, and private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. With this release, Red Hat reaffirms its continued commitment to Java EE 8 as well as Jakarta EE, the new home for cloud-native Java, a community-driven specification under the Eclipse Foundation.

Microservices are no longer a playground and developers and architects have adopted them and re-architected applications to reap their benefits, while others have also deployed to production. Voxxed Days Microservices is an exciting place to share those experiences and also listen to what Red Hat has been doing in this space with Microprofile, Thorntail, SmallRye and more. As you might know, Voxxed Days Microservices 2018 will take place in Paris on the 29th October and Red Hat will be there together with the Eclipse Foundation. We also have an exciting line up of sessions and also a presence at the booth for any interesting conversations, questions and discussions on the topic.

Here is a list of sessions:

Session Title

Date and Time (CET)

Keynote: Distant past of Microservices

Monday 09:15

Ask the Architects

Monday 18:15

Data in a Microservices world: from conundrum to options

Monday 14:30

Data Streaming for Microservices using Debezium

Tuesday 14:30

Thorntail – A Micro Implementation of Eclipse MicroProfile

Tuesday 11:15

What is SmallRye and how can you help?

Tuesday 13:00

There will also be a full day hands-on workshop on Wednesday, October 31st for those interested in learning more about Microprofile.

This is Oracle’s first edition of their CodeOne (October 22-25) conference (née JavaOne), which expands to a variety of runtimes beyond Java, among other things. Red Hat will be present at the conference delivering workshops, keynotes, and sessions on a variety of topics. As a leader in open source, Java, cloud, containers, microservices and cloud-native Java, Red Hat will host a series of talks on our implementation of MicroProfile using the open source project Thorntail. Here is a list of our MicroProfile-related sessions:

Date and Time (US PST)

Session Title

10/23/2018 20:30:00 @ Moscone West – Room 2018

Eclipse MicroProfile: What’s Next?

10/22/2018 12:30:00 @ Moscone West – Room 2018

Cloud Native Java EE with MicroProfile

10/25/2018 11:00:00 @ Moscone West – Room 2011

Thorntail: A Micro Implementation of Eclipse MicroProfile

10/22/2018 13:30:00 @ Moscone West – Room 2008

Building a Fault-Tolerant Microservice in an Hour

10/24/2018 16:00:00 @ Moscone West – Room 2018

CDI from Monolithic Applications to Java 11 jlink Images

There will also be other MicroProfile-related sessions delivered by members of the community.

EclipseCon Europe is fast approaching and many open source users, vendors, corporations, and developers will converge on October 23-25, 2018 in Ludwigsburg, Germany for the once-a-year event that brings the latest trends in IoT, web and cloud development, Java and Java development toolkits, tools and IDEs, and cloud-native Java. As a leader in open source, Java, cloud, containers, microservices, and cloud-native Java, Red Hat will be present with a series of talks on our implementation of MicroProfile using the open source project Thorntail. Here is a list of our MicroProfile-related sessions:

Date and Time (CET)

Session Title

23 Oct 2018 – 15:15

Path to Cloud-native Application Development: 8 steps

24 Oct 2018 – 14:00

Thorntail – A Micro Implementation of Eclipse MicroProfile

24 Oct 2018 – 16:30

Distributed Tracing for MicroProfile Runtimes

25 Oct 2018 – 10:45

Cloud Native development with Eclipse MicroProfile on Kubernetes

There will also be other MicroProfile-related sessions delivered by members of the community.

Red Hat will also participate in the Community Day on Monday, October 22, 2018 with workshops, “meet the spec” talks and process and implementation discussions related to MicroProfile and Jakarta EE.

Come and visit us at the Red Hat booth (booth #1) and pick up your swag!

EclipseCon France is taking place this week in Toulouse, France (June 13-14, 2018) and it’s offering a great lineup of top-notch sessions on nine different tracks, from IoT to cloud and modeling technologies. This year, there is even a dedicated track for “Microservices, MicroProfile, EE4J and Jakarta EE,” which is covering topics such as Istio, 12-factor apps, geoscience, machine learning, noSQL database integration, cloud-native application development, security, resilience, scalability, and the latest statuses of the Jakarta EE and MicroProfile open source specification projects. Under this track, we are hosting two sessions:

For those of you that will be at the conference, we invite you to attend the sessions above and to stop by the Red Hat booth to learn how Red Hat can help your organization solve your IT challenges (and get your swag too!). And for those of you that would like to learn more about Red Hat offerings in relation to the topics above, please visit the following links:

Jakarta EE is officially out! OK, given the amount of publicity and evangelising we and others have done around EE4J and Jakarta EE over the past few months, you would be forgiven for thinking it was already the case, but it wasn’t … until today!

I cannot stress enough how important this is to our industry. The number of Java™ developers globally is estimated at over 14 million. The Java EE market is estimated at a high multi-billion dollar value to the industry. Yes, there are other languages out there and other frameworks but none of them have yet made the impact Java™ and Java EE has over the years. Of course, Java EE was not perfect for a variety of reasons, but if you consider how much of an impact it has had on the industry given known and debated limitations, just imagine how much it can bring in the years ahead if it were improved.

With the release of Jakarta EE, we all have a chance to collaborate and build on the good things it inherits, whilst at the same time working to evolve those pieces which are no longer relevant or perhaps never were quite what was needed. Working within the open processes of the Eclipse Foundation vendors, Java™ communities, individuals etc. are all able to interact as peers with no one vendor holding a higher role than another. We’ve seen this exact same process work extremely well in a relatively short period of time with Eclipse MicroProfile and I believe Jakarta EE can do at least as well.

When talking about Java EE and now Jakarta EE some often focus only on the technologies. Fortunately, those of us who have been in the open source world long enough appreciate that the community is just as important. With Jakarta EE, all of us involved in working towards the release hope that we can use it as a catalyst to bring together often disparate Java™ communities under a single banner. Too often, Java EE has been a divisive topic for some vendors and some communities, resulting in fractures and often working on the same problems but pulling in different directions. If Jakarta EE does only one thing, and that is bringing everyone together to collaborate, then I would still deem it a success!

I’ll finish by discussing why Red Hat® has been helping to lead this effort along with others. I can summarise this pretty easily: enterprise Java™ remains critical to our customers and communities, and we believe that despite the increase of other languages and frameworks, it should remain so for many years to come. Red Hat, and JBoss® before it, has contributed to J2EE™, Java EE, and Eclipse MicroProfile for years, and we believe that sharing our experiences and working on open source implementations is important for the industry as a whole, no matter what language you may be using. We believe it’s important to leverage Jakarta EE in the cloud and to a wider range of communities than in the past. We’re here to stay and will continue to help lead!

Do you want a step-by-step introduction to setting up JBoss BPM Suite, then coverage of practical and important topics like data modeling, designing business rules and processes, detailed real world examples, and tips for testing?

For the last few years I’ve been working on putting years of working with JBoss BPM Suite, community projects Drools and jBPM together in one easy to understand book.

In 2017, Red Hat put the first chapter online for free and literally thousands downloaded it starting their journey on the road to delivering process driven application with JBoss BPM Suite. Many of you have reached out over the years to ask about the completion of this book and where you can get it.

The good news isthat the book is available and Red Hat’s providing ebook downloads for free!

The latest edition of the white paper titled “The Business Value of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform,” which summarizes the benefits and value that Red Hat customers are seeing by moving to JBoss EAP, has been released.

As the paper states, “IDC interviewed organizations that are using JBoss EAP to develop and run various business applications. These study participants explained that they not only have significantly reduced platform costs with JBoss EAP but also are supporting important organizational IT initiatives such as containerization, microservices, and hybrid cloud use.” The interviewed participants varied in size from medium to large organizations and belonged to a set of diverse vertical industries.

There is this myth that Java EE containers aren’t fast and agile enough to build modern applications. Although this may be true for some app server vendors, it’s definitely not the case for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP). JBoss EAP is a modern application platform that includes a modular structure that allows service enabling only when required, improving startup speed.

With this in mind, we decided to run a comparison between JBoss EAP and other technologies that are touted to be the best for cloud-native applications. Not to our surprise, here are the results:

Note: The performance tests above were produced without any performance optimization, and if you run the tests yourself, you might get different results depending on your hardware and memory. The conclusion from the above results is that JBoss EAP is not slower and does not use more memory than the other runtimes.

When comparing a JBoss EAP instance running Java EE Web Profile app, a JBoss EAP running a Spring application, Tomcat and Spring Boot, you can see that in our tests, JBoss EAP running Java EE Web Profile was faster, used less memory, and had the highest throughput under load. You can find the entire test suite and source code at the following location:

The release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 (JBoss EAP) is now available. JBoss EAP is Red Hat’s middleware platform, built on open standards and compliant with the Java Enterprise Edition 7 specification, which includes a modular structure that provides service enabling only when required, improving startup speed, memory footprint and performance. Included in this minor release are a broad set of updates to existing features. In addition, the release provides new functionality in the areas of security, management, HA, and performance, such as a new additional security framework that unifies security across the entire application server, CLI and web console enhancements, and load balancing profile, respectively. Also included are additions to capabilities related to the simplification of components such as a new additional EJB Client library, HTTP/2 Support and the ability to replace the JSF implementation as well as the JBoss Server Migration Tool to migrate from previous versions of JBoss EAP to JBoss EAP 7.1. With these new capabilities, customers can continue to reduce maintenance time and effort, simplify security, and deliver applications faster and more frequently, all with improved efficiency.